Liver Quotes - Page 6

• This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach.

  Evel Knievel

  Football, Believe, Years

  Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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• Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life.

  Lynn Margulis

  Self, Order, Years

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1995). “What is Life?”, p.17, Univ of California Press

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• I take goldenseal, Echinacea and cod liver oil when flying to boost my immune system.

  Janelle Monae

  Oil, Flying, Boost

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• Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.

  Joe Murray

  Thinking, Healthy, Would Be

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• What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.

  Dennis Quaid

  Thinking, Looks, Want

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• If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Thinking, Interesting, Brain

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• Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.

  Virginia Woolf

  Song, Book, Library

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.828, Wordsworth Editions

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• Delaying a meal brings about symptoms most people call "hunger." These symptoms include abdominal cramping, weakness, and feeling ill-the same as during drug withdrawal. This is not hunger. Our dietary habits, especially eating animal-protein-rich foods three times a day, are so stressful to the detoxification system in our liver and kidneys that we start to get withdrawal, or detoxification, symptoms the minute we aren't busy processing such food. Real hunger is not that uncomfortable.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Real, Animal, People

  Joel Fuhrman (2011). “Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot.

  Neil Gaiman

  Boots, Vexation, Blithe

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• I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hurt, Men, Thinking

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• The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has it's own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Friday, Dog, Monday

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)”, p.231, Random House

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• . . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's no need to keep on about it. There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Thinking, Needs, Way

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Whose Body?”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

  Djuna Barnes

  Men, Pounds, Philosopher

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.94, New Directions Publishing

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• Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

  Harlan Ellison

  Looks, Argument, Microphones

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood.

  Margaret Atwood

  Girl, Volleyball, Blood

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• A bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. "You want to be careful with those," Ron warned Harry. "When they say every flavor, they mean every flavor - you know, you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a booger-flavored one once." Ron picked up a green bean, looked at it carefully, and bit into a corner. "Bleaaargh - see? Sprouts.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Chocolate, Ordinary

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• It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot. We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, out loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her.

  Mary Roach

  Heart, People, Waiting

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• On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Wind, Alive

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out." "Do you even know where a human liver resides?"[...] "Yes," she said, and punched him in it.

  Anne Stuart

  Cutting, Said, Humans

  Anne Stuart (2011). “Shameless”, p.168, MIRA

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• What a strange expression said the herbalist who would compare themselves to chopped liver in the first place? If you have to to choose an organ why not pick a gallbladder or a thymus gland instead? Much more interesting than a liver. Or what about chopped t-

  Christopher Paolini

  Expression, Interesting, Why Not

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that fifth-century sky ablaze with mystery and spiral light. Let us both live forever, in sickness and health, feebleminded, doddering, toothless, liver-spotted, dim-sighted, hallucinating. Who decides these things? What is out there? Who are you?

  Don DeLillo

  Light, Talking, Sky

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.119, Pan Macmillan

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• She can take a year to read something, whereas I like a book that becomes more important in my life that life itself. When I was in the middle of 'Red Storm Rising' by Tom Clancy - which was not selected for the Man Booker shortlist - you could have taken my liver out and fed it to the dog. And I wouldn't have noticed.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Dog, Book, Taken

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• He loves me, he doesn't love my bowels, if they showed him my appendix in a glass he wouldn't recognize it, he's always feeling me, but if they put the glass in his hands he wouldn't touch it, he wouldn't think, "that's hers," you ought to love all of somebody, the esophagus, the liver, the intestines. Maybe we don't love them because we aren't used to them, but if we saw them the way we saw our hands and arms maybe we'd love them; the starfish must love each other better than we do.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Glasses, Hands

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2010). “The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories”, p.56, New Directions Publishing

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• Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

  Julian Barnes

  Eye, Bored, Looks

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.74, Random House

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• A long-dead angel who thought to own me,” was his enigmatic answer, the silver in his eyes almost liquid. “I tore out his throat. After that, I ate his liver and his heart. The remaining internal organs weren’t as tasty so I gave them to his other creatures.” Elena’s hand tightened on the handle of the knife, conscious Naasir carried gleaming blades of his own in the sheaths strapped to his arms. “I wouldn’t think a vampire who killed an angel would be permitted to live.” A slow, feral smile. “I didn’t say I killed him.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Eye, Angel

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Archangel's Legion”, p.90, Penguin

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